The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.
Honore de BalzacA knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.
Honore de BalzacOnly when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.
Honore de BalzacAnd he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.
Honore de Balzac